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Call Sign July 2011
On behalf of all Call Sign gamers, DaC's Jon Winterburn asks...
Gaming:
What's worth playing?
called. But it does look very swish indeed and
so far removed from the current Start Menu
and desktop approach that we're used to.
Check out this Microsoft developer video
showing footage of Windows 8 in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92
QfWOw88I.
Goodies on the
OnLive
Horizon
For the last year or so, I have had a beta tester
So this month I thought I'd tell you about
account with OnLive, but work and life con-
three of the latest and greatest tech goodies
straints meant I'd neglected this service for
that are currently in development and expect-
several months. It seems that OnLive is now
ed to become available in the next year or so.
available to the public. So what is OnLive? It's
I'll give you a brief overview and you can
a groundbreaking new service which provides
watch video footage of them in action on the
"cloud-based gaming." What this means is that
YouTube links.
instead of having to have a super-powered
computer or an expensive console to play
Nintendo Wii U
Jon says the Nintendo Wii U is awesome
video games, OnLive streams high-end video
When Nintendo released the Wii back in 2006,
games to your PC, Mac or TV over the Internet
both together, plus it interacts with the Wii in
it was ground-breaking. No other console
(aka "the cloud")! No need to buy a console or
many clever ways. You really must see the
could match it. Of course since then we've
graphics card for your PC and no need to buy
video to appreciate the ability of this new
seen the PlayStation 3 with "Move" and XBOX
games from the shops!
gaming phenomenon; it is just awesome! Take
360 with "Kinect" and both have made the Wii
Admittedly, as a die-hard PC gamer, I doubt
a look at:
look dated - especially as both PS3 and XBOX
I'll switch to OnLive permanently, however, it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3
360 support HDMI whereas the Wii doesn't.
is ideal for casual gamers who want access to
qaPg_keg.
So it was a pleasant surprise when Nintendo
great games with minimum hassle. At the time
announced their next console: the Wii U. Not
Windows 8
of writing this, they have a free trial available
a very compelling named, granted, but it does-
at:
Yep, no sooner have you bought your shiny
n't do their new console justice. The Wii U is
http://www.onlive.com.
new laptop with Windows 7 and gotten to
simply brilliant. Instead of the Wii and
More news next month!
grips with it, than Microsoft announce the next
Wiimote controller, you will have a next-gen-
version! It's still very much in development
eration Wii and a tablet (a bit like an iPad)
Jon Winterburn
and apparently Windows 8 is just its code-
which is the controller. This will allow you to
DaC Network Administrator
name, so who knows what it'll end up being
play your game on your TV or the tablet, or
Steve's super injunction fails!
Those long-time Dial-a-Cab drivers who worked on the old Finsbury Square rank now EC5
will know Steve Shaller (formerly R75 and now F34J). Always ready for a moan and a
chance to have a pop at the Board, Steve is now in semi-retirement and shares the cab of
Steve Sharpe (F34) on an occasional basis, having decided to domicile himself in sunny
Spain.
But a recent development has shed light on his personality when it was discov-
ered that in reality, Steve was a really nice guy who got on with everybody and in
actual fact, thought the world of DaC! But Steve became the first licensed taxi dri-
ver to take out a super injunction against Call Sign, when he discovered that we
were about to publish an article saying how nice he actually was.
See inset to
find that
"It has taken me years to build up a reputation as a tough nut, who isn't afraid
Steve's secre
t markings
to ask pertinent questions and our magazine is going to ruin that by saying that I'm real-
are actually
the DaC
ly quite nice. This calls for a super injunction!"
phone numb
er!
Fortunately, an appeal put paid to Mr Shaller's attempt to block the passage of free speech and we can now
show the world the evidence of Steve's true allegiance to this Society. It was discovered in a pair of trousers he
had discarded into a rubbish bin and which were then taken out by a passing tramp. He took them to show his friends at Lincoln's Inn
Fields where one spotted secret markings on the trousers. None of them could understand the meaning, so they decided to ask a taxi driver
who had parked on the new rank in order to relieve himself in the not-so-new public convenience.
The driver also on DaC took just seconds to explain.
"These belong to someone who is proud to be on Dial-a-Cab," he said, "a true devotee...!"
Call Sign's reporter obtained photographic evidence to confirm the driver's diagnosis and to show why Steve Shaller's deliberate moaning
personality was just a cover-up for being nice. Thanks to winning the super injunction appeal, we can show it above...
